Connecting a Cloud Build trigger to a third-party repository

Other chapters of this book use GitHub as a source code repository. Although GitHub is very popular, there are other top-tier repository providers out there, such as GitLab and BitBucket. This chapter’s example uses GitLab to illustrate a different integration than we’ve used in previous chapters.

To use GitLab as a source repository, there are three main steps:

1. Create a host connection.
2. Create a link to the repository.
3. Create a Cloud Build trigger.

These three steps will be expanded upon in the following sections, starting with connecting to GitLab.

Creating a host connection to GitLab

Follow these steps to create a host connection to GitLab. This procedure assumes you have a GitLab account. These steps create two tokens. The first provides full API access, while the second provides API read-only access:

1. In GitLab, create an api personal access token.
   1. Under User Settings...